Whenever the threat of war against a new enemy abroad rises, attacks at home erupt first against those who are perceived to…
Phyllis Bennis
Phyllis Bennis is an American writer, activist, and political commentator. She is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Her work concerns US foreign policy issues, particularly involving the Middle East and United Nations (UN). In 2001, she helped found the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace as well as the board of the Afro-Middle East Center in Johannesburg. She works with many anti-war and Palestinian rights organizations, writing and speaking widely across the U.S. and around the world.
Economic sanctions have a long and brutal history, almost as long as the history of war itself. What they don’t have— especially in recent…
Recent weeks saw two terrible tragedies at sea. In one, five explorers died when the Titan submersible imploded in the North Atlantic.…
Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused…
In the face of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on February 6 — claiming the lives of more than 50,000 people — the Biden administration…
This article was jointly produced by Foreign Policy In Focus and InTheseTimes.com. Since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives earlier this year, the…
Twenty years ago — on February 15, 2003 — the world said no to war. People rose up in almost 800 cities…
In some ways ceasefires can seem complicated — by themselves they don’t solve the problems that led to armed conflict in the first place.…
President Joe Biden, to his credit, did not come out swaggering at his press conference announcing that the CIA had just killed…
If our tax dollars are furnishing the weapons that kill journalists and other innocents, that’s not just an international crime—it’s against U.S. law, too
